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PRINTING MACHINE. No. 325,146. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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EDWYN ANTHONY, on JERSEY oiTY, New JERSEY, ASSIGNOR To a. HOE & co, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

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QPECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,146, dated August 25, 1885.

h pplication filed April 20, 1883. (X model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDwYN ANTHONY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in Jersey City, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Printing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to web-printing ma chines which print simultaneously on both sides of two webs, each web being printed on alike, but with different matter on the opposite sides of a web. The particular printing mechanism by which this result is attained is immaterial to this invention, except as regards the relative position 01' the two webs as they issue from the printing mechanism, which may be such that their edges are in the same pair of parallel planes, but one web in the way of the passage of the other web; or the 2C) webs may issue with their edges in the same pair of parallel planes, but free from each other; or the printing mechanism may be such that the webs issue at an angle t one another, as is shown in Patent No. 265,233.

The object of this invention is to cause the two webs to pass together out of the machine -in two side-by-side streams.

The invention consists in combining with the printing mechanisms slitting mechanism 0 and turning bars, arranged to turn and associate a strip or strips of one web with the other web, and thus produce two sideby-side streams of like products, all as is more specifically hereinal'ter set forth and claimed.

Practical embodiments of this invention are shown in the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure l is a side elevation, Fig. 2 an end elevation, Fig. 3 a plan view, of printing 40 mechanism provided with these improvements.

In this printing mechanism the webs issue with their edges in the same pair of parallel planes; but one web is in the way of the free passage of the end of the other webthat is,

5 the course of the web B, after it has been printed on both sides,is impeded by the web A.

The web A is printed upon one side by passing between the impression-cylinder H and form-cylinder C. It then passes over leadjug-rollers I I Z, and is printed upon its opposite side by passing between the impressioncylinder K and formcylinder D. From these cylinders it is carried over leading-roller 7G,

and thence passes to the turning-bars.

The web B passes between the forincyliu der D and impressioncylinder G, whereby it is printed upon one side, then between impression cylinder F and form cylinder 0, whence it issues printed on both sides. Its further course is confined (unless it is deflccted) within a certain space by the web A, and hence it is directed to turning-bars that de fleet it, and which, coacting with the turningbars by which the other web is deflected, it is brought into proper correlation to that web, 6 5 so as to becombined therewith in the formation of a useful product.

The arrangement of the turning-bars will be understood from a further description of the course of the webs, but it must first be stated that one or both of the webs may be longitudinally split along a central line by any suitable mechanism, either before, after, or during the passage through the printingmachine.

The turning-bars a b I) are fixed cylinders lying parallel to one another and arranged at an angle to the axes of the printing-cylinders.

The web A, from the leadi ug-roller It, passes around the turning-bar a, and thence between 89 drawingrollers 1' r. The web B, after it has been printed, passes between the slitting mechanism L L, which, as shown, is composed of two cylinders, the upper of which is provided with a groove and the lower with a cirs eular knife. in passing this slitting mechanism the web B is divided into two strips. One strip-say l3is then led around turning-bar b, thence around turning-roller d, and is re turned around roller 0, and thence passes he o tween the drawingrollers r r on the top of one half of web A. The other half of web B say strip B'--is conducted around the turning-bar b thence around the roller 0' and passes between the (lrmvingrollers1'r under- 9 neath the other half of web A and by the side of the strip B".

The web A must ultimately be slit longitudinally along its central line; but the mechanism for doing this is not Sl'lOWll, because the I'll.

said slitting may take place either before or after its passage over the turning-bar a,while the webB must be slit before its passage round the turning-bars. Thus is produced two side byside streams, with no space between them, and if the forms have been placed on the formcylinders in suitable order the two streams Will be identical in every respect.

It is obvious that by slitting the web A before it is deflected, and by suitably placing the parallel turning-bars, the two streams may be caused to have any desired space between them and in this case, if preferred, the two strips or halves of web A may be associated together, as may also the two strips or halves ofthe web Bas by leading one strip of A over turning-bar a, and the other strip of A over turning-bar b, and one strip of B over turning-bar b, and the other strip of B over turning-bar a.

in Figs. 4 and 5, the former being aside elevation and the latter a plan view, is shown (seen from the under side, the strip B being shown as broken away between the dotted lines) the case where the axes of the printing cylinders and leading rollers are parallel to one another, as they may be, for'the reason that the webs issue from the printing mechanism free from one another, and hence the webs may be trcated as in the preceding case. As shown, however, the web A is led between a suitable slitting apparatus for dividing it longitudinally, such as the cylinders X X, one of which has a cut- 5 tinggroove and the other a circular knife. From this slitting mechanism the strip orhalfweb A is led around the turning-barg, passing downward over it, and thence upward and forward around the turning-bar g, and thence 40 between the drawing-rollers r, (only one of which is shown.) The half-web or strip A passes under and upward around turning-bar thence rearward and downward round the v turning-bar g and thence forward between the drawing-rollers r r. The web B passes between a suitable longitudinal slitting mechanism, (shown as cylinders Y Y,) which may be constructed as are the cylinders X X. The half-web or strip B thence passes over 0 roller 0 and under roller 0 and thence passes directly forward between the drawingrollers r r underneath the half-web or strip A', while the half-web or strip B goes under roller 0, and thence passes up between the barsg g, thence over the roller 0, and finally passes between the drawingrollers r r above the halfweb A.

It is also clear that the webs may be similarly treated when theprinted webs issue from 6 parallel cylinders which are not opposite one another. For example, (in Fig. 1,) if we imagine the web A moved along so as to be no longer opposite the web B, then correspondingly move the bar a parallel to itself, the 6 webs would still pass between the rollers r r,

as they do in said figure.

\Vhere the printing mechanism is such that the webs issue at an angle to one another, as they do in Fig. 10 in Patent No. 265,233, dated October 3, 1882, in this case, as is shown in Fig. 6, the bar a is no longerparallel to the turning-bars 12 b but inclines thereto at an angle equal to the angle between the edges of the two webs on entering the apparatus; and indeed, if desired, the bar a may be dispensed with altogether (in other words, the web A need not be deflected) by fixing the parallel bars b b at an angle to the edge of the web B equal to half the angle between the aforesaid edges of the two webs. The drawingroll'ers r r and the rollers for bringing the webs into the same plane after they have been deflected are omitted in this figure.

The web A coming from one direction is turned over the bar a, and thence passes outward toward the rollers M". The web B, split longitudinally, has its strip B turned over the bar b, and it thence passes out on top of one side of the web A. The strip B of the web B is turned over the bar b and thence passes outward under the other side of the web A.

Thus in whatever way two webs issue from a printing mechanism, and whether a four,an

eight, or a twelve page paper be imprinted thereon, they can be brought into two side-byside streams, which may be regarded, with reference to after folding and delivery, as consisting of four-page papers with their pages the same way upon both streams; and if the printing mechanism is wide enough to printa sixteen-page or even a larger paper this mechanism might be employed to conduct the two webs together and produce two like side-byside streams.

What is claimed isl. The combination, with printing mechanism arranged to perfect two webs, and a slit ting mechanism, of turning-bars arranged to turn and associate strips of one with the other, and thus form two side by-side streams of like products running laterally out of the machine, all substantially as described.

2. The combination, with printing mechanism arranged to perfect two webs ,and a slitting mechanism, of turning-bars arranged to turn the webs and associate strips of one web with theupper and under sides of opposite halves of the other web, all substantially as described. I

3. The combination, with printing mechanisms arranged to perfect two webs, and slitting mechanism operating to split each web into two strips, ofturnin g bars arranged and operating to transfer and associate the strips of one web with the opposite strips of the other web, whereby the two opposite strips of both webs are brought together and form two streams of like products running side by side, all substantially as described.

EDWYN ANTHONY.

Witnesses:

G. 'B. MITCHELL, OHAs. RAETTIG.

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It is hereby certified that Letters Patent N 0. 325,146, granted August 25, 1885, upon the application of Edwyn Anthony, of Jersey City New Jersey, for an improvement in Printing Machines, was'erroneously issued to R. Hoe & 00., its successors or ztssignsf that said Letters Patent should have been issued to R. H00 0% 00., their heirs I or assigns that this correction has been made in the records of the case in the Patent Office, and that the said Letters Patent should be read to conform thereto.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 1st day of September A. D. 1885.

.[SEAL.] G. A. JENKS,

Acting Secretary of the Interior. Gountersigned M. V. MONTGOMERY,

Commissioner of Patents. 

